FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from" failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from" failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 2d4594acbf6d8f75a27f3578476b6a27d8b13ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:22:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix the regression from "direct-io: Fix negative return from
 dio read beyond eof"

Sure, it's better to bail out of past-the-eof read and return 0 than return
a bogus negative value on such.  Only we'd better make sure we are bailing out
with 0 and not -ENOMEM...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index 1c75a3a07f8f..602e8441bc0f 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,7 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
 		if (dio->flags & DIO_LOCKING)
 			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 		kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio);
+		retval = 0;
 		goto out;
 	}